This blog follows the progress of the LRO mission through Integration and Testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and launch site processing at KSC\Astrotech. Its purpose is to enable communication to the entire LRO Team about the status of ongoing activities.

LRO was launched June 18th, 2009 at 5:32pm EDT from KSC. This BLOG will follow the progress of the mission as LRO travels to the Moon and establishes orbit around it.

This BLOG will be periodically updated during LRO's early mission but as the nominal mission unfolds the official NASA LRO website and the LRO Science Instrument's own websites will evolve into a more interesting sources of LRO science results as postings appear there first and LRO engineering and operations (source of this site) will become increasingly routine.

Monday, June 22, 2009

B-I-G (Boring is Good)

Our new motto: B.I.G. "Boring is Good"....things continue to go smoothly as LRO cruises towards the moon. LRO is now 339, 838 km from the Earth. We are getting ready for the Lunar Orbit Insertion Engineering (LOI-E) burn which will occur in approximately 23 hours. We are also preparing for the LOI-1 burn which will occur in approximately 29 hours.

White Sands 1 (WS1) has successfully supported S and Ka-Band support for our mission. This is a great milestone with our new ground station enabling clean data transfer from the LRO spacecraft to the MOC at 100 Mbps. Also, solid commanding capability to our spacecraft as it cruises to the moon.

CRaTER, the 1st instrument to be turned on, is reporting good, solid data and has produced their 1st LET spectrum in all 6 detectors from the 1st 10 minutes of data received. LEND is now in their optimal configuration for LOI burns.
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